Vintage Prints

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Renkontre (The Clash) by Käth Olshausen-Schönberger, NY Public Library Picture Collection

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Seasonable Refreshment, this is an image based on a proverb regarding money matters - Italy o in Italian: L'ozio e padrone dei vizi. which means Laziness is the landlord of vices, NY Public Library Picture Collection

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The Tea Party, from the collection of the comical creatures from Wurtemberg - by H. Ploucquet. Engraved by G. Greatbach, from a Drawing by Mason. [n.d., c.1840s.] Steel engraving, sheet 135 x 210mm. 5¼ x 8¼". Four cats take tea around a table. NY Public Library Picture Collection

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1 of 8 color illustrations by Walter Crane in The Fairy Ship, Routledge’s new sixpenny toy books, 95. [London] George Routledge and Sons, 1870, NY Public Library Picture Collection

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Out for a Holiday (Albert Hall), C. 1870s, NY Public Library Picture Collection

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The Pianist, from the collection of The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg, NY Public Library Picture Collection

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Au Soulier de Paris, drawing by J.L. Grandville, NY Public Library Picture Collection, c. 1846

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Dessin de Freeman, d'apres Landseer, NY Public Library Collection, 1849

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Office of the Barker and Biter (editorial room), January 1857, NY Public Library Picture Collection

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Animals as humans, NY Public Library Picture Collection

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Virginian Opossum, John James Audubon, 1845, Hand-Colored Lithograph, 20 1/2 x 27 inches, Gift of the 1998 Collectors Circle

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Two Bank Mice, John James Audubon, 1846, Watercolor and Pencil on Paper, 12 3/4 x 18 5/8 inches, JKM Collection

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Snowy Owls, John James Audubon, c. 1830, Hand-Colored Engraving, 37 1/2 x 24 3/8 inches, Gift of the 2008 Collectors Circle

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Hooping Crane, John James Audubon, 1835, Hand-Colored Lithograph, 35 1/2 x 23 inches, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Smithers

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Fish Hawk, or Osprey (Plate LXXXI) John James Audubon 1785 - 1851 Date 1830 Medium Hand-Colored Engraving Dimensions 20 1/2 x 27 inches

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American Bison, John James Audubon, 1785 - 1851 Date 1845 - 1848 Medium Lithograph Dimensions 22 x 28 inches

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Eleazar Albin, A natural history of English song-birds, and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing, Vol. 1-3, 1741.